Episode
Dilbert: The Virtual Employee
Overview
Dilbert and his co-workers find an empty cubicle and start dumping their obsolete computer equipment into it. To keep the marketing department from claiming the cubicle, they hack into the human resources database and create a profile for a fake engineer named Todd. The plan backfires when Todd is named project leader and develops a messianic reputation.
Details
- Series
- Dilbert
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 12
- Air date
- 2000-05-30
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
The Virtual Employee is Episode 12 in Season 2 of Dilbert. It aired on 2000-05-30. The runtime is 22 min.
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Episode 13: Pregnancy
Ratbert accidentally sends Dilbert's model rocket into space. When it returns with samples of DNA from aliens, cows, hillbillies, engineers, and robots, it rectally impales Dilbert, impregnating him.
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Episode 10: The Assistant
Dilbert is unwillingly promoted to management and given an assistant, sparking a showdown with the other engineers.
Episode 14: The Delivery
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Episode 9: The Off-Site Meeting
Dilbert's home is chosen as the location for an off-site meeting when a dendrophile sues his company because of their deforestation policies.
Episode 15: Company Picnic
The annual company picnic comes around and so does the softball game between Marketing and Engineering. This episode is based on Romeo and Juliet.
Episode 8: Hunger
Dilbert tries to end world hunger by creating a new, safe, artificial food, but it tastes so bad that even people dying of starvation refuse to eat it – until his mother gets involved.
Episode 16: The Fact
Dogbert becomes rich and famous by writing a best-selling book about an imaginary disease, 'Chronic Cubicle Syndrome', and Dilbert finds himself saddled with the job of devising a cure.
Episode 7: The Merger
The Boss decides that the company needs to merge with another, and chooses a company of brain-sucking extraterrestrials.
Episode 17: Ethics
After the company employees are forced to take ethical-training classes, Dilbert is put in charge of designing a nationwide Internet voting network. His scruples are put to the test when an attractive female representative of a tobacco special-interest group tries to seduce him.
Episode 6: The Security Guard
After a heated debate, Dilbert and the building's security guard trade jobs to see who can do the other's job better. Dilbert quickly finds himself in over his head when he discovers an illegal casino being run underneath the building.
Episode 5: The Dupey
Dilbert's attempts to design a Furby-style children's toy go horribly awry when the toys gain sentience and mutate into hideous but benevolent creatures that want independence.